Re: Software Warning?

["joddie noblit" <drakahn@xxxxxxxx>]

> I think this is inaccurate.  The government is to indecisive and
> fickle to be a real threat at this point.  The problem is huge
> corporations pushing their agenda into law.  I think someone on
> Slashdot has refered to this as "corporatism". When you have an
> uninterested and poorly educated populace (both which we certainly
> have) this is all too easy.  Mention copyright law to 19 out of twenty
> people on the street and I'll wager they just glaze over.  But
> intellectual property laws are intimimately related to human rights
> and a free society.  Fortuneatly we have the court system, which in
> opinion are what make America great.  But as evidenced in the DVD
> case, one has to know how to use it.

actualy i was complaning more about uninterested pepole than the
governement. however
i am seeing more and more laws which are not needed inorder to "protect us"
or are designed to
"go after crinimals" but all that end up happening is that they end up doing
is slowly striping us of our
constitunal rights.

it seems after all these years since the nation was founded pepole still are
uneducated evin with all the information around right at your fingertips,
wich is a sad thing to say, this goes to my theory that pepole are
inherintly lazy.

> Actually I think the check-and-balance system was created to keep the
> government from spinning out of control in EITHER direction, as the
> authors believed that democracy was inherently unstable.
>
i agree wit you on this however i only brought it up to point out that the
majority of pepole in the country
are taught in public schools that this will keep the governemnt from
removing our rights(atleast in my school i was), which is not the case and
all that end up happening is that pepole use it as an excuse to not do any
thing when laws such as these are introduced.

> I'm not using a soap box, I'm standing on a Milk crate.
hmm good idea maby next time... :)